the one where sh*t happens

Chapter Thirty-Four

*narrator pov*
"Okay you ready?"
You were about to walk into the first part of your trial, and you were waiting to go in the courtroom with Peter.
"Yeah I think so" you replied to him hesitantly.
The door opened and a policewoman walked in. "They're ready for you."
"Ok I'll see you in there" you told Peter.
He left and went to sit next to May in the courtroom.
The police officer waited a moment before she guided you out too.
You scanned the room and saw May and Peter sitting up front; they were smiling at you.
You saw the guy who wore the crappy captain America costume on the other side of the room.
Other than them, you didn't see any other faces you recognised.
No sign of Bucky.
The judge walked in and the trial started.
"How do you plea?"
You turned one last time towards Peter and May behind you, and they nodded.
You turned back to the judge.
"Not guilty."
Someone laid out the facts of the case for the jury, and they began to take statements.
One of the soldiers who found you at the base was first.
He told them he had found you roaming around halls with no restraints, unsupervised, and he had heard you calling for Zemo.
Unfortunately, he did not lie once.
Next was the police officer who had questioned you when you returned home.
He mentioned that you had admitted to what you had done right in front of him.
He didn't really lie either.
It wasn't looking too good, as you had no one currently in the room to testify to support you.
Peter couldn't, because that meant revealing he was Spiderman.
And neither Bucky or Sam had shown up.
At this rate, you were very likely going to jail.
Then, it was Walker's turn.
You had no idea what he was going to say as you had never spoken to him and had never even seen him until when you got arrested.
"Look. I'll be honest. I don't know this kid that well. But I know her friends" he began.
"I don't know if this is going to be good or bad" you whispered to your lawyer.
"Shhhh" he hushed you.
"One of which is the Winter Soldier. We all know his past, we all know he used to be dangerous."
You sat up straight when Walker mentioned Bucky.
"And I know she's a kid. But how do we know she isn't dangerous too? For all we know, she could be an assassin just like him. She could even be a super soldier. We don't know! And what we don't know is dangerous."
"Objection!" your lawyer yelled "you can't just make assumptions with no proof!"
"I can if it makes sense. We just caught her associating with Zemo, who is well known for his association with the super soldier serum."
"She wasn't associating. She was kidnapped. I have the proof" someone from the back of the courtroom called, and everyone turned towards him.
Sam had snuck in during Walker's accusation and was standing at the back of the room.
He started walking forward towards the stand with an envelope in his hand. He handed it to the judge and the judge opened it.
Inside were photos from the airport security footage of the gun behind your back. There were photos from the base of you strapped into a chair, and being escorted around by bodyguards, and locked in a cell with a shock collar chain around your neck.
"What is this?" Walker asked.
"Evidence. Something you should probably get before making an accusation like you just did."
Sam looked back at you and nodded as the photos were passed to the jury.
Sam returned to take a seat next to Peter behind you, and Walker was called off the stand.
"We have one more witness before we take a 24 hour recess to look things over."
You looked at your lawyer but he didn't seem to know who it was.
A door across the room from you opened and two police officers walked out.
Zemo was between them.
"No! He can't testify!" you yelled as he walked up to the stand.
Everyone seemed to ignore you.
Someone began to question him.
"Zemo. Please state the nature of your relationship with y/n y/l/n for the record."
"She is my girlfriend."
"No I am not! You liar" you yelled.
Your lawyer hushed you again.
"We broke up the other day apparently. When you took her away from me" Zemo continued.
"So you were dating?"
"Yes."
"Was this a mutual arrangement?"
"Well it started with her begging me to take her out actually. But yes after a while I fell for her too."
"Ugh you are sick" you cried.
"No further questions your honour."
The other person sat back down as your lawyer stood up.
He took the photos that Sam had brought and walked them over to Zemo.
"What do you see in these photos?"
Zemo chuckled and responded "I don't know what these are. I would never hurt my love."
"Are these not your personal bodyguards?"
"Yes. But I was unaware of this."
As it turns out, Zemo was not in any of the photos.
"I was just trying to protect her. I did not mean for her to get involved and help me with my crimes."
"What?!"
"I just ask one thing. When we go to jail, may I request we be together? I could not bear to be without my love."
"What the fuck? No!"
"Miss y/l/n please sit down."
"I'll see you soon my love" Zemo smiled as he was escorted out the room.
You turned around and faced Sam, Peter and May. Peter seemed the most worried as you stared at him.
Someone pulled you up and walked you out the room, leaving them behind.
They pushed you into the private room you were in before, and left you in there.
Someone hugged you from behind.
Bucky was standing behind the door before it closed.
"Shit Bucky" you were startled at first, then relieved, then angry, very quickly. "Bucky! What are you doing here?!"
"We're leaving" he grabbed your hand.
"Wait no. Bucky! I can't go!"
"Why not?"
"It's illegal!"
"What does it matter? You're probably going to jail anyway."
"I can't just run away. That won't help anything!"
"Damn it!" Bucky let go of your hand and sat in a chair.
"Bucky..."
"What?!"
"We need to talk. About what Sharon said."
"No we don't."
"Yes we do. I need to know... is what she said, is it true?"
"N-no. No of course not."
You nodded slowly, but you were dying inside.
"Okay. Okay that's all I needed to know" you sat in the chair next to him.
The door opened and someone came in.
"Ok let's go."
You looked at Bucky then at the guard.
"Do I know you?" you asked as he handcuffed you, but he ignored you.
"I swear I recognise you from somewhere" you stared hard at him.
"I've seen you around the station" the guy replied.
"Hm. Maybe I just recognise you from there" you shrugged. "Bye Buck."
Bucky was left in the room by himself. He sat in the chair, thinking about you. He had just lied to you.
A few moments later, another police officer opened the door.
"Let's g- who are you? Where's y/l/n?" they asked.
"Another officer took her like two minutes ago" Bucky responded.
"What?" The officer spoke into their walkie talkie "we need a sweep of the building. Suspect y/n y/l/n has escaped."
"What did you just say?" Bucky stood up and marched towards the officer.
"She's escaped. Sorry sir I need to go find her" the officer started walking out the room, but Bucky grabbed his shoulder.
"Didn't you hear me before? Someone took her. They handcuffed her and took her. She did not escape!"
"Sir you need to let go before I place you under arrest."
Bucky let go and a crackling voice came through the walkie talkie "copy that. Call for reinforcements. Zemo has escaped too."
"Shit" Bucky stormed past the officer and ran out the room.
———
The guard had taken you outside the courthouse and put you in the back of the police car.
He got in the front but didn't start driving.
Another officer approached the car, walking with Zemo.
"Hey" you said to the driver "I don't think you can put two suspects in the same car after trial."
"It's fine" he replied.
You rolled your eyes as the door opened and Zemo got in next to you.
The person that was with him got in the other spare seat in the back of the car and it started driving.
"Hello my love" Zemo smiled.
"Shut up."
"Why are you so miserable?"
"Hm. I don't know. Maybe because you're a lunatic who is tryna send me to jail."
"You're not going to jail."
"Is that so?" you gestured the handcuffs at him.
"And neither am I."
"Ha. There is no way you are not going to jail."
Zemo smiled and held his hands out the the officer beside him. He undid the cuffs.
"Um. What the hell?"
"Like I said. Neither of us are going to jail."
"Nope. I'd rather go to jail."
"You don't want freedom?"
"With you? Never. Let me go."
"I can't do that my love."
"Ugh. Why not?"
"I enjoy your company."
"Creep."
"So you don't want those off" he pointed at your handcuffs.
"Yeah I want them off" you rolled your eyes at him.
The guard took them off and you stretched out your fingers.
"Oh that feels good" you moaned. And you were quick to step into action. You punched the guard in the face several times and kicked his stomach. You took the gun out of his holster and banged him on the back of the head with it. Then you pointed it at Zemo.
"Stop the car" you told him.
The driver looked back in the rear view mirror.
"Tell him to stop the car" you repeated.
"Pull over" Zemo ordered. "My love, you don't want to do this."
"Uh yes I really do" you said as you pushed the door open. You slammed it in his face and the car drove off.
You let out a sigh of relief. That seemed easy enough.
Suddenly someone grabbed you and your feet left the ground.
Spider-Man.
Fuck yeah, you thought as he swung you through the air.
He landed with you on a rooftop, and took off his mask.
"Y/n! What are you doing? Why are you running? Are you crazy?"
"Peter! Peter! Ok I didn't run. Zemo took me again. And he's in that police car that just drove off. And you need to go and stop him now."
"Okay. Yeah okay" Peter jumped off the roof.
"Hey wait! No get me off this roof" you ran to the ledge, but you tripped at the last second.
"Shiiiiiit" you screamed as you fell. Maybe it wouldn't hurt. It was only two floors. Okay maybe three.
"You are so lucky I caught you."
You opened your eyes and saw Bucky's face.
"Yeah I guess I am."
You looked into his eyes until you heard sirens in the distance.
"Okay you can put me down now."
He looked up and towards the road where the sirens were coming from.
"Bucky?"
He started running in the opposite direction.
"Bucky!" You screamed and held onto him as he ran through the streets.
He threw you on the back of a motorbike he found and climbed on in front of you.
You grabbed tightly onto his waist, holding on for dear life as he drove away.
"Bucky wait!"
He ignored you, so you let go of him. You fell back off the motorbike, but quickly got up and ran off.
"Y/n!" Bucky jumped off the motorbike and ran after you.
When he reached you, you were bent over someone in an alleyway.
You pulled Peter's mask off.
"I- I tried. He got away" Peter panted. His hand held his stomach.
"No. No it's okay" you picked up his hand, covered in blood.
Peter had been shot.
"It's going to be okay" your tears fell down your face.
He closed his eyes.
"No. No Pete stay awake. Come on dork, don't do this."
He half-smiled with his eyes closed "it's going to be okay y/n/n."
"No no no no no. Bucky do something! Help me!"
"Come on we'll take him to the hospital."
"No. We can't. He can't go to the hospital. They'll find out he's Spider-Man. I can do it. I just need to get him home. Please."
Bucky carefully lifted Peter and walked back onto the street. He broke into a car and put Peter in the backseat.
You didn't care he was breaking the law, you just needed to help Peter.
Bucky drove the car back to his apartment and ran Peter up the stairs.
You ran to the bathroom and grabbed everything you knew you needed.
He's been shot before, but it had never been this bad. You were always helping him when he got hurt.
You ran back out and bent down over Peter.
You quickly checked his pulse - he was still breathing.
"You're going to be okay. It's okay" you whispered as you used a pair of tweezers to pull out the bullet. It wasn't very far in, but it still caused a lot of bleeding.
Your hand got shaky as you started to sew him up.
"Here let me do it" Bucky took the needle from you and finished for you. "You learn to stitch yourself up when you get hurt a lot."
"Thank you" you sighed as he effortlessly finished.
Bucky checked his pulse again "he's still breathing."
"Okay. He's going to be okay. He's fine" you breathed slowly "he heals fast anyways. Because of the spider thing."
You were sat on the floor, and you leaned back against the couch.
"He's okay" you repeated as you closed your eyes.
Bucky picked you up and carried you into the guest room, then lay you on the bed.
"Stay" you said with your eyes still closed. "Please Bucky. Stay."